Past Events

Visit Two Lines Press at Booth 306 at the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Marketplace!

Join us for a daylong celebration of language and literature, featuring a brilliant lineup of writers, translators, publishers, and artists.

Visit us at LITLIT, or The Little Literary Fair, in Los Angeles July 30 and 31! Check out the latest Two Lines Press titles and chat with staff.

Four eminent translators discuss the hard-fought, increasing visibility of their art and offer insight into their methods and projects.

Join Two Lines Press Publisher Michael Holtmann and fellow publishers from six beloved presses to celebrate Indie publishing, presented by Brazos Bookstore.

Authors Jazmina Barrera and Gabriela Wiener discuss their books Linea Nigra and Nine Moons with writer Rivka Galchen.

Jazmina Barrera and Kate Zambreno discuss Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes, translated by Christina MacSweeney, at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn.

Masatsugu Ono and Juliet Winters Carpenter celebrate the release of At the Edge of the Woods at The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle.

Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney talk about Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes with Roberto Tejada at Houston’s Brazos Bookstore.

Masatsugu Ono discusses his novel At the Edge of the Woods, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, with David Karashima, author of What We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami. Co-presented with Community Bookstore.

Jazmina Barrera, Jokha Alharthi, and Chloé Cooper Jones discuss motherhood as a transformation experience at the Bay Area Book Festival.

Translators of Latin American contemporary literature—Forrest Gander, Christina MacSweeney, Megan McDowell, and Achy Obejas—will shed light on the origins, rewards, pitfalls, and complexities of their discipline at the Bay Area Book Festival. Moderated by Nathan McNamara.

Alejandro Zambra and Megan McDowell discuss the writer/translator relationship and how they achieved a creative symbiosis in Zambra’s fifth novel, Chilean Poet, at the Bay Area Book Festival.

Maja Lunde, Masatsugu Ono, Irene Solá discuss nature as the most powerful character of all at the Bay Area Book Festival.

Jazmina Barrera and Christina MacSweeney celebrate the release of Linea Nigra with Silvia Oviedo at Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco.

Jazmina Barrera joins Lydia Kiesling to celebrate the release of Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes, translated by Christina MacSweeney. Hosted by Third Place Books, Ravenna.

Spanish author Elena Medel and translator Lizzie Davis join writer Anna Solomon to celebrate the release of The Wonders.

This event is postponed.

Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk and Man Booker winning translator Jennifer Croft join Michael Holtmann to celebrate the release of The Books of Jacob.